Advanced Comp. Vocab #4
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- predatory
- adj - characterized by plundering or preying
- formidable
- adj - causing fear or dread; hard to overcome or deal with
- invidious
- adj - giving offense or causing ill will or hatred
- odious
- adj - hateful, repulsive, or offensive
- heinous
- adj - hateful, atrocious, or very wicked
- pernicious
- highly injurious, destructive, fatal, or deadly
- decadence
- n - decoration
- botch
- v - to spoil or bungle, to repair or to patch clumsily
- perverse
- adj - sutbbornly contrary, erring, or deviating fomr what is considered right
- smut
- n - soot, matter that blackens or soils things; obscenity
- cataclysm
- n - a great flood, a natural catastrophe, great upheaval
- dross
- n - ny waste matter or refuse; the scum coming to the top of liquid metal
- dreg
- n - the waste material at the bottom of a vessel after the liquid hads been taken off; the most worthless part of anything
- offal
- n - garbage; or the inedible, discarded parts of a butchered animal
- dank
- adj - unpleasantly damp or wet
- fetid
- adj - having a foul, offensive smell
- sordid
- adj - dirty, squalid, or vile
- bestial
- adj - brutal, savage, coarse, or like a beast in behavior or appearance